Who We Are 

At C.A. Ferolie, we pride ourselves on maintaining strong traditions of excellence, providing our valued clients with tailored sales and marketing solutions since 1947. Our teams are enthusiastic, experienced, and knowledgeable people who consistently exceed expectations. We are family-owned and operated, giving us unparalleled flexibility to invest locally in talent and development that delivers industry-leading results.  

The Space Planning & Analytics Manager leads the development, planning, and design of planograms to maximize the positioning, facing and shelf presence of authorized products for our clients, at a variety of customers within key channels.                 

Job Responsibilities: 

• Ensure compliance with customer shelving standards and that planogram expectations are met by creating, changing, and maintaining shelf structure. 

• Create rationale for increasing client assortment on shelf wherever possible by analyzing movement data of all items in an assigned planogram and communicating best practices for both customer and client.  

• Achieve immediate new item placement on planograms to client standards to insure quick placement in the customers’ retail stores. 

• Represents CA Ferolie client interests at presentations with customers; develops a strong rapport with appropriate customer space management personnel. 

• Manages project timelines to ensure required inputs are received on schedule for on-time execution.  

Qualifications:

• Education and/or Experience:  Bachelor’s degree, plus a minimum of 3 years merchandising or in-store experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Must have experience in resets and shelf management in store.  

• Language Skills:  Ability to read, analyze, and interpret instructions, sales operations and procedures manuals, general business periodicals, HR regulations and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and associates. Adapting to the various forms of communication: verbal, non-verbal, written, visual, mass, group and individual.   

• Mathematical Skills:  Must know basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication to perform accurate calculations of budgets, net sales, margins, promotional percentages, discounts and commissions. Ability to calculate figures and apply concepts to sales velocity ratios, days of supply, and sales forecasting. and proportions to practical situations. 

• Reasoning Ability : Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. 

• Computer Skills :  To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Order processing systems; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software. 

• Physical Demands : The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Technology Skills:  To perform this job successfully, an individual should have working knowledge of the fundamentals of the Microsoft Office Suite of Programs including by not limited to: Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Working knowledge of computerized Space Management software required. 

• Other Skills And Abilities: Ability to read, analyze and interpret plan-o-grams for various categories at given accounts. Must have a valid driver's license and clean DMV report. 

• Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.  The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms.  The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.